long felt sympathy, but begins to feel an attraction toward Richard and suggests they leave Maria and George alone together in the otherwise deserted house. In the meantime, George and Maria declare a truce, with George suggesting they win their respective love interests over by pretending a regard for each other. Helen and Richard depart in the only boat. Richard leaves a note containing one word: "Ho!". Helen and Richard have nightmares about George and Maria, together alone in Maria's house. They row back to the house in the middle of the night, but no one comes to the door in response to the bell. When Richard climbs up to Maria's bedroom window, she is frightened by the (to her) unknown intruder and rushes to George's room. There is where Helen and Richard find them together. Recriminations soon follow. The film then flashes forward to Helen, who is showing the family photo album to her two sons. The narrator addresses her as Lady Bristol, only to be corrected by her. She has married Richard, while George, to the narrator's disbelief, is Maria's partner. Cast Beatrice Lillie as Maria Wislack Clive Brook as George, 10th Duke of Bristol Googie Withers as Helen Hale Roland Culver as Richard Halton O. B. Clarence as Doctor Graham Laurence Hanray as Parkes Elliott Mason as Mrs McCosh Hay Petrie - Hotel manager Mollie Munks as Jeanne Marjorie Rhodes as Cook Production Clive Brook took this popular play (originally set in the early 1920s) and placed it in the late Victorian era, where the concept would have been much more shocking. Brook wrote the screenplay (keeping very close to the original play), produced and directed the film. It's one of the very few films featuring Beatrice Lillie, often referred to as "The funniest woman in the world" for her eccentric personality and portrayals in so many amusing stage plays and revues. The film begins with an amusing documentary-style prologue about contemporary life in 1942 England, which serves to introduce Brook's character, George, in the late Victorian era. Reception Filmmaker Lindsay Anderson called the film "the funniest British light comedy ever made" (according to the DVD box). Legacy On Approval was the "dark horse" of the 2014 edition of the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival. The first screening of On Approval, held at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on the first full day of the festival,